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Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P. Kumm., 1871

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Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P. Kumm., 1871
Family : Physalacriaceae
Common names: Honey mushroom [En], Armillaire couleur de miel [Fr], Echte honingzwam [Nl], Gemeiner Hallimasch [De]

Meise, BRABANT โ— Belgium

Description: The cap is 3-15 cm, convex to broadly convex or flat in age; the margin often arched in maturity; dry or tacky; color extremely variable, but typically honey yellow; smooth, or with a few tiny, dark scales concentrated near the center and vaguely radially arranged. The gills are attached or beginning to run down the stem; nearly distant; whitish, sometimes bruising or discoloring darker. The stem is 5-20 cm long; .5-3.5 cm thick; tapering to base due to clustered growth pattern; tough and fibrous; smooth and pale near apex, darker and nearly hairy below; with a persistent ring at maturity and a white partial veil covering the gills when young. The flesh is whitish to watery tan.

Biology : Pathogenic and parasitic causing a white, pulpy rot in the wood, spreading through wood, and from tree to tree, by means of long black rhizomorphs. The mushrooms typically appearing in large clusters on wood in the fall after rains, but found nearly year-round in warmer climates.

Habitat: On the wood of hardwoods (and occasionally on conifers).

Distribution: Europe, eastern and southeastern North America.

References:
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